Mashreq - Maghreb project (MM III ) in Morocco
  Research activities
 

 

Activities

Objectives

Identify and assess constraints that hinder collective action of communal rangeland management and provide options to alleviate constraints

  • Study current rangeland management mode and strategies of rangeland occupation;
  • To identify informal and formal structures of collective action concerned by the rangeland management, their strengths and weaknesses and stakes;   
  • To propose some to alleviate constraints and to develop collective actions of communal rangeland management.

Develop proper grazing management options.

  • To describe local knowledge related to rangeland management and animal grazing ;
  • To evaluate rangeland resources contribution and utilization in different district and different period ;
  • To assure better adequacy between animal intake and rangeland production by proposing and evaluating convenient rangeland management options and proper grazing options.

Promote water harvesting techniques

  • Valorize water harvesting and attenuate the drought effects

TIPOs for risk management and drought mitigation

  • Analyze existing community livelihood strategies to mitigate drought
  • Evaluate public drought preparedness and mitigation (in different levels)
  • Assess and promote available technologies and local knowledge to reduce risk and vulnerability.

Linking communities to markets for better opportunities

  • Identification of the existing locals & regional markets and their characteristics
  • Detection of the community relations to these markets
  • Identification of the constraints & potentialities which characterize the relations Community-markets
  • Determination of the better opportunities

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Participatory animal health monitoring and management

  • To describe animal health situation and famous diseases affecting flocks
  • Causes diagnosis of animal mortality and diseases (specifically in goat) and elucidate the risk factor associated.
  • To evaluate economic impact of animal diseases and mortality 
  • Elaboration of prophylactic program and identify application measures 

Medicinal and herbal plants for diversifying production and  income generation

  • Improve public awareness of the importance of AMP and build on traditional knowledge ;
  • Conserve, manage, and use effectively,  medicinal and aromatic plants in this arid areas;
  • Investigate options to increase the productivity of agro-pastoral systems and to diversify income-generating opportunities.
  • Enhance rural women capacity in processing local products.

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Community based quality add value cottage processing

  • Capitalize the existing know-how related to principal community production of olive fruit and olive oil.
  • Evaluate potential production and factors limiting the improvement of quality and quantity of production (olive and olive oil);
  • Develop the whole production chain (from the production to marketing) based on improving cultural techniques and optimizing production process and quality control.

Micro-finances scheme (formal, informal), assessment and promotion

  • Typology elaboration of the local micro-finances agencies
  • Identification of the strength and weakness of each type
  • Determination of the needed actions to promote each micro-finances type.

Develop impact pathways for the project intervention for the CDP’s actions

  • Objectives

§         Identify the main SEE performance indicators for each project intervention

§         Determinate and describe the tools of measuring these SEE performance indicators

§         Develop and implement participatory M&E System

§         Implementation work plan for Impact assessment

Assess the effectiveness of local institutions to empower communities and recommend options to fulfill their mandate

 

§   Build some stylized facts about the CBOs role and performance in local pastoral development and NRM

§   Strengthen community organization for improved institutional setting

§   Identifying institutional arrangements in order to support the CDP implementation and success.

Community-based quality add-value cottage processing - Women’s Directed Research

§   Role of women in weaving: processing and market options

§   Role of women in small ruminant production

 
 
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